Congrats to Brian Treanor, with this new title from SUNY. ISBN10: N/AISBN13: 978-1-4384-5117-6

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A rich hermeneutic account of the way virtue is understood and developed.

Despite its ancient roots, virtue ethics has only recently been fully appreciated as a resource for environmental philosophy. Other approaches dominated by utilitarian and duty-based appeals for sacrifice and restraint have had little success in changing behavior, even to the extent that ecological concerns have been embraced. Our actions often do not align with our beliefs. Fundamental to virtue ethics is an acknowledgment that neither good ethical rules nor good intentions are effective absent the character required to bring them to fulfillment. Brian Treanor builds on recent work on virtue ethics in environmental philosophy, finding an important grounding in the narrative theory of philosophers like Paul Ricoeur and Richard Kearney. Character and ethical formation, Treanor argues, are intimately tied to our relationship with the narratives through which we view the human place in the natural world. By reframing environmental questions in terms of individual, social, and environmental narratives about flourishing, Emplotting Virtue offers a powerful vision of how we might remake our character so as to live more happily, more sustainably, and more virtuously in a diverse, beautiful, wondrous, and fragile world.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Just What Sort of Person Would Do That?

Introduction Moral Reasoning in Contemporary Ethics Virtue Ethics

2. Virtue Ethics and Environmental Virtue Ethics

Virtue and Flourishing The Middle Way Emotion and Action Virtue and the Environment

3. Virtue: A Constellation of Concerns

Virtue and Living Well A Typology of Virtue: Individual, Social, and Environmental

4. A Story of Simplicity: A Case Study in Virtue

The Scope of Simplicity: More Than Material Restraint The Scope of Simplicity: A ‘Comprehensive’ Virtue Thoreau’s Nature

Paul Ricoeur and Narrative Identity Richard Kearney and Narrative Epiphanies Martha Nussbaum and the Judicious Spectator Wayne Booth and Coduction Objections: The Return of Relativism and the Excesses of Imagination

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